01769cam a2200289 4500 350132954 TxAuBib 20110915120000.0 101123s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781439175781 pbk. $7.99 1439175780 pbk. $7.99 (OCoLC)687668692 BTCTA eng BTCTA OMP JQJ IHI IUI ALH TxAuBib Showalter, Gena. Dark taste of rapture / Gena Showalter. 1st Pocket Star Books pbk. ed. New York : Pocket Star Books, 2011. 451 p. ; 18 cm. alien huntress novel, An "Hector Dean is shaved, tattooed, and totally ripped-and he has a deadly secret. He is a walking weapon, capable of killing with a single brush of his fingertips. Little wonder he's determined to remain on his own. But Noelle Tremain is a temptation like no other. She is beautiful and rich, with a party girl smile that hides a shocking vulnerability, and from the beginning his sizzling attraction to her is undeniable. For the first time, his stone-cold resistance is tested. But to be with her, he risks destroying her. When a wealthy businessman is murdered in New Chicago's seediest district, the two are partnered, and there's no escaping what they both want: each other. Yet neither Hector nor Noelle knows what to fear more-the killer case, or their own lethal desires"-- Cover verso. 20110915. Women private investigators Fiction. Human-alien encounters Fiction. Science fiction. Romantic suspense fiction. An alien huntress novel.